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corporatenews
IBA enters exclusive agreement
with Dasheng
IBA has extended its offering by adding the Dasheng
Electron beam accelerators to its portfolio of high current
IBA Dynamitron® (formerly called RDI Dynamitron®). As of
1st April 2010, IBA will be the exclusive distributor of the
Dasheng E-beam accelerators outside of China. IBA will also
be responsible for providing installation and support services
to Dasheng E-beam accelerator customers outside of China.
“Not only will this collaboration extend our IBA Dynamitron
portfolio but Dasheng will also bring in the collaboration its
expertise in cable and heat-shrink products, reel-to-reel under
beam systems, irradiation process and related compounds,”
said Serge Lamisse, president of IBA Industrial.“Our customers
will have access to both product lines. Dasheng E-beam
accelerators are mainly targeted for R&D facilities or lower
current applications, while the original IBA Dynamitron
will focus on high current, high throughput applications,”
he explained.
Dasheng E-beam accelerators and IBA Dynamitrons are
designed for both industrial processing and research
applications. Wire and cable insulation crosslinking with
electron beam improves cables insulation strength, dura-
bility and resistance. Every year, a greater percentage of
automotive and aeronautics cables are treated with electron
beam processing.
IBA Industrial – Belgium
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Chris Holden has been elected as the next president of
the board at the Fibre to the Home Council Europe, becoming
the fifth person to hold this position since the Council
was founded in 2004. He replaces the outgoing president,
Karel Helsen.
Since joining the FTTH Council Europe in 2005, Chris has been
an extremely active member of several committees. In April
2008 he was elected as chairman of the development and
operations committee, and in April 2009 as board member of the
FTTH Council Europe.
In his farewell message Mr Helsen said: “The FTTH Council
Europe can be proud of its achievements to date, with the yearly
conference as its flagship event. This conference is now the
biggest FTTH conference worldwide and stands in the spotlight
of the international media.
“I strongly believe that fibre access will boost a whole suite of
new services and applications. The strategy of the FTTH Council
Europe 2015 reflects this development and I am sure that the
council will be very successful in attracting new members from
these industries.”
FTTH Council Europe – Belgium
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New president for FTTH
Council Europe
The MV-Marketing Vertrieb Unternehmensberatung, member
of the “netzwerkdraht e.V.”(wire network) association of German
wire manufacturers and their suppliers, held its third “Wire
Industry Day” (Branchentag Draht) on 6th May.
Stefan Szkudlapski, netzwerkdraht secretary and manager of
the MV-Marketing Vertrieb Unternehmensberatung, welcomed
nearly 60 participants from the wire and wire-related industries.
The main topic was how wire manufacturers could increase
their competitiveness, reduce costs and synergise their
strengths. In his opening conference, Markus Mohaupt, industry
analyst of the financial institute Industriekundenbank (IKB),
emphasised that worldwide economic development is forced
by Asia, particularly China, while the economic recovery from
the current global financial crisis is far more moderate in Europe
and North America. In order to remain competitive in view of
new competition from upcoming nations and increasing raw
material and energy costs, wire manufacturers must try to
reduce or avoid superfluous costs.
Three workshops were held in which options and possibilities
were discussed, including the modernisation of existing
production equipment with new energy-saving drives. It was
suggested that up to 70% of the energy consumption in a
factory is used by electrical drives.
netzwerkdraht association – Germany
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3rd Wire Industry Day